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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2849000, member: 19463&quot;]I agree with Ides on what he said except I prefer not to be termed &#039;expert&#039; in anything.&nbsp; &#039;Slow learner&#039; is closer.&nbsp; I do have an opinion on cleaning.&nbsp; Ancient or modern, it is OK to clean certain types of ugliness from our coins while others are best left alone. In modern, it is fine to blow dust from the surface using dry air.&nbsp; Beyond that, you might make the coin worse.&nbsp; All ancient coins have been cleaned to a point that modern collectors would call them &#039;details&#039; coins.&nbsp; The good ones have been cleaned but don&#039;t look that way;&nbsp; The bad ones scream out what has been done to them. My advice in both cases is to realize that you may make things worse so it might be better to sell a coin and buy one you like as it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt highly that most of us knew that.&nbsp; Speaking only for myself, I doubt I will know that tomorrow.&nbsp; I do have several Peace dollars left over from when we used to spend them before 1964 but I have not kept up on things like that since making the switch to ancients.&nbsp; The rules of collecting are different over the 50 years and between the coins we collect.&nbsp; I really would ask your question over in the US section and ignore what anyone who likes old &#039;details&#039; coins (ancients) might say. </p><p><br /></p><p>As far as photography goes, I am no good at modern coins.&nbsp; I did this image for a coin club program to show the importance of light placement but none are great images.&nbsp; I had to throw in modern coins to keep the members awake. </p><p><img src="http://m8.i.pbase.com/g1/88/582688/2/132250018.Qd1GmFuZ.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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